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While the regulatory environment is more accommodating for big deals, many regionals still have their reasons for staying on the sidelines.

The agency creates “regulatory sandbox” to help develop products, including crypto-based ones; FSOC agrees bank’s failure wouldn’t wreck the financial system.

The Fed's top regulatory official suggested that some banks could get a break from filing resolution plans and see the frequency of their stress tests reduced.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council has proposed dedesignating Zions Bancorp. as a systemically important financial institution under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Comerica faced aggressive questioning Tuesday about how it could use freed-up capital now that it’s no longer considered a systemically important financial institution. It won’t be the last small regional to get such a grilling this earnings season.

Almost 10 years after the financial crisis, Wall Street was starting to wonder aloud: Might Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley make a big acquisition? Much of that speculation got a reality check on June 28 when both firms scraped through the Federal Reserve's annual stress tests.

Five of the year’s biggest deals by value have been announced in the last two months, including some that involve regional banks that have been champing at the M&A bit.

Banks may be disguising their borrowings in a way similar to that used by Lehman Brothers, with debt ratios falling within limits imposed by regulators just four times a year.

The Connecticut company will have nearly $48 billion in assets after it buys First Connecticut Bancorp.

The central bank's rule-writing workload is expected to remain busy for the foreseeable future, thanks in large part to enactment of the recent regulatory relief bill.